SK Rapid Wien

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Rapid Vienna
Full name	SK Rapid Wien
Nickname(s)	Die Grün-Weißen (The Green-Whites), Hütteldorfer
Founded	1899
Ground	Gerhard Hanappi Stadium
Capacity	17,500
Chairman	Rudolf Edlinger
Manager	Peter Pacult
League	Austrian Bundesliga
2005-06	Austrian Bundesliga, 5th
Home colours 　 Away colours

The Sportklub Rapid Wien or SK Rapid Wien is one of the two big football teams in Vienna. The second team, Rapid's eternal rival, is FK Austria Wien. The Rapid squad is often known as the "Green-Whites" (those being the team's colours) or as Hütteldorfer for the location of the Gerhard Hanappi Stadium, which is located in Hütteldorf, part of Vienna's Penzing or 14th District. Rapid has a nationwide fan base and is clearly the country's most popular football club. In English, they are referred to as Rapid Vienna.

Contents 1 History 2 Stadium 3 Honours 4 Current squad 5 Notable players 6 Managers since 1910 7 Team trivia 8 Competitions 9 See also 10 External links

[edit] History

SK Rapid Wien was founded in 1898 as Erster Wiener Arbeiter-Fußball-Club (First Workers' Football Club of Vienna). The team's original colours were red and blue and usually they are still used in away matches today. On January 8, 1899 the club was re-named, taking on its present name of Sportklub Rapid Wien (Sport Club Rapid Vienna), following the example of Rapide Berlin. In 1904, the team colours were changed to green and white.

One of the best teams in early European football, Rapid became a dominant side during the years between the world wars, when Austria was one of the leading football nations on the continent. After the Anschluss of Austria to Germany in 1938, Rapid played in that country's Gauliga Ostmark along with clubs such as First Vienna and Admira Vienna (playing then as Wacker Wien and Admira Wien). Rapid would be the most successful of these clubs. They won the Tschammerpokal, predecessor of today's German Cup, in 1938 with a 3-1 victory over FSV Frankfurt, and topped that with a German Championship in 1941 by defeating Schalke 04, the most dominant German club of the era. The team was able to overcome a 3-0 Schalke lead to win the match by a final score of 4-3 through strength and endurance – the traditional virtues of Rapid players known as the Rapidgeist or "Rapid Spirit".

Almost since the club's beginnings, Rapid fans have announced the last fifteen minutes of the game by way of the legendary "Rapidviertelstunde" – rhythmic clapping at home or away no matter what the score. The first mention of the practise goes back to 1913, and in 1919 a newspaper wrote about the fans clapping at the beginning of the "Rapidviertelstunde". Over the decades, there were many instances where Rapid managed to turn around a seemingly hopeless situation by not giving up and, with their fan's support, fighting their way to a win just before the final whistle.

Although Rapid is by far the most popular club in Austria, other teams like Red Bull Salzburg or FK Austria Magna are able to spend significantly more money every year as they are owned by investors/billionaires. Rapid is trying to compensate for this lack of financial funds by supporting young and talented players.

[edit] Stadium

SK Rapid Wien's stadium is Gerhard Hanappi Stadium, which is located in Hütteldorf, part of the Penzing district of Vienna. In its earliest days Rapid played on a military exercise field, until the opening of a new stadium in Rudolfsheim in 1903. But the field there was unsuitable because it was sloped, and with the club's rising popularity, a new stadium was needed: in 1912, the legendary "Pfarrwiese" was built, just in time for the first Austrian Championship. In 1977, Rapid moved to the new "West-Stadion", which was later renamed Gerhard Hanappi-Stadion after its architect and popular and successful former Rapid player Gerhard Hanappi.

[edit] Honours

Rapid Vienna is also Austria's record titleholder, winning the Austrian Championship title 31 times to date. Supporters of other teams sometimes argue that the 16 championship wins before the establishment of a nation wide all-Austrian league should not be counted. However, those titles are credited by most observers, since Viennese league play was virtually synonymous with Austrian football at that time.

• Austrian Championship (31): 1912, 1913, 1916, 1917, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1923, 1929, 1930, 1935, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1946, 1948, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1964, 1967, 1968, 1982, 1983, 1987, 1988, 1996, 2005

• Austrian Cup (14): 1919, 1920, 1927, 1946, 1961, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1976, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1995

• Austrian Supercup: 1986, 1987, 1988

• German Championship: 1941

• German Cup: 1938

• Mitropa Cup: 1930, 1951

• Cup Winners' Cup Runners Up: 1985, 1996

[edit] Current squad

No. Position Player 1 GK Raimund Hedl 2 MF Gernot Plassnegger 3 DF Thomas Burgstaller 4 DF Martin Hiden 6 MF Christian Thonhofer 7 MF Peter Hlinka 8 MF Petr Vorisek 9 FW Mate Bilić 10 MF Mario Bazina 11 MF Steffen Hofmann 12 MF Christopher Drazan 13 DF Markus Katzer 14 MF Ümit Korkmaz

No. Position Player 15 MF Stefan Kulovits 16 MF Mario Sara 17 MF Veli Kavlak 18 DF Hannes Eder 21 FW Erwin Hoffer 22 DF Radek Bejbl 23 DF Andreas Dober 24 GK Helge Payer 25 FW Marek Kincl 26 DF Jozef Valachovic 27 MF Branko Bošković 28 MF Cemil Tosun 30 GK Andreas Lukse

[edit] Notable players

• Hans Pesser
• Gerhard Hanappi
• Hans Krankl
• Franz Binder
• Carsten Jancker
• Dietmar Kühbauer
• Andreas Herzog
• Trifon Ivanov
• Peter Schöttel
• Ernst Happel
• Michael Konsel
• Andreas Ivanschitz
• Dejan Savićević
• Josef Uridil
• Antonin Panenka
• Gerhard Rodax
• Toni Fritsch
• Max Merkel
• Walter Skocik
• Walter Zemann
• Robert Körner
• Anton Körner
• Franz Wagner
• Heribert Weber
• Reinhard Kienast
• Wolfgang Kienast
• Leopold Lainer
• Herbert Feurer
• Michael Hatz
• Gaston Taument

[edit] Managers since 1910

• Dionys Schönecker 1910 - 1925
• Stanley Willmott 1925 - 1926
• Edi Bauer 1926 - 1936
• Leopold Nitsch 1936 - 1945
• Hans Pesser 1945 - 1953
• Josef Uridil 1953 - 1954
• Viktor Hierländer 1954 - 1955
• Alois Beranek 1955 - 1956
• Franz Wagner 1956
• Max Merkel 1956 - 1958
• Rudolf Kumhofer 1958 - 1959
• Robert Körner 1959 - 1966
• Rudolf Vytlacil 1966 - 1968
• Karl Decker 1968 - 1970
• Karl Rappan 1969 - 1970
• Gerd Springer 1970 - 1972
• Robert Körner 1972
• Ernst Hlozek 1972 - 1975
• Josef Pecanka 1975
• Franz Binder/R. Körner 1975 - 1976
• Anton Brzezanczyk 1976 - 1977
• Robert Körner 1977 - 1978
• Karl Schlechta 1978 - 1979
• Walter Skocik 1979 - 1982
• Otto Barić 1982 - 1985
• Vlatko Marković 1985 - 1986
• Otto Barić 1986 - 1989
• Hans Krankl 1989 - 1992
• August Starek 1992 - 1993
• Hubert Baumgartner 1993 - 1994
• Ernst Dokupil 1994 - 1998
• Heribert Weber 1998 - 2000
• Ernst Dokupil 2000 - 2001
• Peter Persidis 2001
• Lothar Matthäus 2001 - 2002
• Josef Hickersberger 2002 - 2005
• Georg Zellhofer 2006 - 2006
• Peter Pacult 2006 - now

[edit] Team trivia

• SK Rapid Wien won the German Championship in 1941 and the German Cup in 1938.

[edit] Competitions

T-Mobile Bundesliga, 2006-07
SCR Altach | Austria Vienna | Grazer AK | Mattersburg | FC Superfund | Rapid Vienna | Red Bull Salzburg | Ried | Sturm Graz | Wacker Tirol     edit

[edit] See also

Football in Austria
Football Association • National team • Bundesliga • First Division • Regional Leagues (East • Central • West) • Landesliga • Austrian Cup • Supercup • Clubs • Champions • Footballers • Managers • Stadiums • Derbies

[edit] External links

• Official Homepage
• http://www.rapidarchiv.at/
• http://mitglied.lycos.de/rapidwien/titel.htm (Rapid's achievements)
• http://mitglied.lycos.de/rapidwien/geschich.htm (Rapid's history)
• http://www.scr-forum.net (Rapid forum)
• http://www.austriansoccerboard.at/austriansoccerboard/index.php?showforum=8 (Rapid forum)